Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jobs left his imprint particularly on the aesthetics of the project. He insisted, for example, that all 50 computer chips be rearranged on a printed circuit board to straighten the solder traces. He worked with the Belgian-born commercial artist Jean-Michel Folon to prepare advertisements for Mac. But the pair found working on different continents too cumbersome, and Jobs retained other artists. Even the publicity brochures accompanying Mac reflect Jobs and contain one of his pet phrases: "Insanely great...
...first is that they were both helplessly smitten by the theater at tender ages. (He imagines a boyish Shake speare falling in behind a touring theatri cal company announcing its presence by parading down Stratford's main street; he recalls himself manipulating a cardboard Laurence Olivier and Jean Simmons in a toy-theater production of Hamlet.) The second is that both grew up to be men of the working theater, practical poets striv ing for the memorable effect. Many of his selections are in fact from speeches in which Shakespeare insisted on the stage as a metaphor...
...suspect in described as in white male in his late 20s to early the, medium build clean shaven, with dark brown hair. At the time of the incident the suspect was wearing a blue jean jacket dark suit pants and glasses with dark runs...
...Drawer, 1890-94, with its laconically joky collection of mementos signifying the past lusts and present debts of a minor artist's life. Yet for every apparent isolate like Homer, there were a dozen Americans beavering away in the teaching studios of Paris, especially those run by Jean-Léon Gérôme, who was Thomas Eakins' teacher, and Thomas Couture, who trained Eastman Johnson...
Fortunately there is Bryher, whose wealth, practical intelligence and activities run away with the book. "Fido," as H.D. called her cigar-smoking companion, is constantly on the move: in one day she visits Brancusi, Stein, Pound, Joyce's wife Nora, and has dinner with Jean Cocteau and Man Ray. Bryher proves to be a great traveler who mingles comfortably and is resourceful under pressure. In London, during World War II, she had cloth woven from camel hair collected at the city zoo. She also tried to raise chickens during the blitz, but the birds ate their own eggs. Just...